Michael Ricks
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After Effects Coins
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COW Coins
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lots and lots of roto work
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https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/ce-shapeextruder/
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/studying-ce-shapeextruder/Check out those tutorials and techniques. They did the trick for me. Obviously there are limitations and Zaxwerks is better for true 3d. But this is just a free alternative.
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You might want to check out the ShapeExtruder tutorials here too: https://maltaannon.com/.
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https://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/a-walk-in-the-park–228
Check that tutorial out and see if that helps at all. It sounds like the same type of thing you’re going for.
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It’s in the folder “Twister Preset” on the Evolution DVD.
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I’d imagine you’d have to set the video footage as a layer map for the color of the particles and set it to RGB to RGB or RGBA to RGBA. Then you’d have to keyframe the displacement or flow values for the fractal noise to whatever you like.
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You mean something like this?
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/CC_puppet_particles.php
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Looks like they probably filmed the spraying of black ink on a white background, or something like that, and then have it run down the the background. Then in After Effects, or whatever compositing software, they created a solid the same color as the text, then made a track matte out of the sprayed ink footage. Or something like that.
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Just open up a new project, go to File, Import… and then import the AE project that has the compositions you want to import. It will import that project into a new folder in your new Project and you will be able to access those compositions that way.
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Use the pan behind tool to move the layer’s anchor point to the shoulder where it should pivot around. You might have to change the initial position of the layer once you do this, but once you get it set up it will work like you want it to.